12 March 2015. Terry Shinn and Anne Marcovich. "Workshop with anthropologists and historians of science on transformation in science viewed through the lens of boundary." (MAST – Rio de Janeiro)

5 March 2015. Terry Shinn and Anne Marcovich.“Intellectual and institutional transformations of western Science in the longue durée perspective”. (Conference for the 50 th anniversary of the MAST - Rio de Janeiro, Bresil)

23 July 2013. Terry Shinn, Anne Marcovich. "A sociological perspective on the Quantum Dot as a generic material", International Conference on the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. University of Manchester, UK

18-19 October, 2009. "Nanoscale Research in France. Research, Stakeholders and Social Interactions", with Anne Marcovich, meeting SIAMPI (Impact of Science on Society, program financed by the European Research Council), Valencia

24 March 2009. "Perspectives in the Sociology of Science and Technology (1937-2005)", UNAM, Mexico

16 December 2008. "Beyond Modernity and Post-Modernity – Toward an Interlacing Model of Social Interaction", Francfort University

19-21 November 2008. "Conference at the International Symposium of Innovation & BahiaTec Technology Fair, Salvador de Bahia"

25 October - 8 November 2008. "Modernity and Post-Modernity Disenchantment Differenciation, Fragmentation, and the Interlocking Matrix", conference within the Departamento de Filosofia, University of Rio

2007:member of the Editorial Council of RECIIS, Electronic Journal in Communication, Information and Inovation in Health, edited by the Center of Scientific and Technology Information of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Brazil)

2006 : member of the Advisory Board of Ciencia, Docencia y Tecnologia, biannual multidisciplinary referee scientific journal published by the Universidad Nacional de Entre Rios (Argentina)

2005-2007 : co-director of Franco-German Volkswagen Foundation Grant on the sociology of nanoscience and nanotechnology

This book outlines a new perspective on the history and sociology of science that places the devices and instruments of scientific measurement, and the people who design and develop them, at the centre of study. Terry Shinn identifies a hitherto unexplored domain of scientific development that he calls research-technology, and demonstrates its centrality for understanding scientific change and development. Through case studies of electromagnetism, the German and American scientific instrument makers, computer programming and simulation, and spectroscopy, Terry Shinn makes a strong argument for the transversality of instrumentation in the face of scientific specialization and fragmentation. He shows how established scientific boundaries are often broken down by instrumental technologies, and how the development of science often proceeds via innovation and genericity in instrument design.